The process of preparing a collaborative proposal, to a major funding body, involves integration of contributions of a many people at many sites. It is therefore an ideal application for a text-based document preparation system such as LaTeX, in concert with a distributed version control system such as SVN. The proposal class itself provides a basis for such an enterprise. The dfgproposal and dfgproposal classes provide two specialisations of the base class for (respectively) German and European research proposals.